Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1887-04-14
B.lI NYE TO MEN. Nye.


Nh DEAR SpN: y WISH you No"''
change the address of my paper to
this place, where your mother and
are now staying. ! got the Heilna AL
right last week, and see that you are
going to enlarge it so have sold my
hay in order to prepare for the event
Wha, is your idea for eniarging th"
paper before the town enlal,es' of
course I am no journalist, hut have
often thought that ii ! had been
doomed to isslic Il paper like the
Reti.ia, and then answer ut the bar oi
j,.lamcnt for it. I would not get 10
power press i'll the town got "a good
dark-bltIe hook k-and-la,l,lcr compan,
and n post office.
hope you will not try to issue II
daily paper, anyhow, ;ill We see how
stock looks when grass grows again.
/ like your edit itorial ON Mark I'm
4 tony" iirs. rate. can imagine how
excited the people of your town We're
when they saw the Rrtina Saturday
morning aud read what your estimate
of Mark was.
wish you would incidentally pick
ND "a few others Of those old pcol'l.
and weigh them. That IL oii" al tle
luxurie- of running "A paper yourself.
You can speak right out and walk all
over these people. II would be worth
almost what | have put into your
paper as n silent partner. You can
have no idca Henry, how il swells me
up with pride and lofty disdain to
know that while | am sleeping cainly
under my rooi-lres', as heard - man
call il once. you are showing up those
old frauds like Julius Cesar, aud
Hamlet and poririliI.. and Nndror-
icus aud Mrs. potipharand other pec
pie who have hecome historical.
/ While other people are tritteri.g
away their time talking about high
WAY tax and boards Of health and AL
such stun as that you are making n
red-hot paper of to-day; IA paper that
fairly boils over with your honest con
victions about the political aspect at
the time that C;rsar took chargc oi
the tribune; n paper that shows the
average reader that you are smart
whether you :, ,Ne them the kind oi
stun they want or not.
That was my idca when ! sent yuu
away 10 that fenale seminary, oi
whaioyer il was. where you went To
get educated. wanted you tn come
out with "a whole lot oi thoughts that
showed right on their face that they
were expensive. wanted you Ia h.
: able to tell down at the store how
much 4. Ii, and { would each have 10
grind OIL u circular grind stone four
i,4.i three and one-hali inches in diam
etcr, with n square hole III the center
three and ou.-lourih inches each way.
provided \ pays onc-siNth the price
oi the stone, II one-half, and { the
balance, with the UNDERSTANDING. that
= & shall use iive ler cp,t more than hls
share, provided lac will ;urn ihe grind
stone. | wanted Nou 10 hc abic to
talk with foreigner, in their own na
TIVE tongIr lac darkest night hat eeci
blew. ! desired that you might be
come !, man who could walk up to ~,
Italian as lac plays his organ vo'un
tary beneath your easement and ir'i
him in his own musical alarm -clocs
language what you think oi him.
= 80 il plrasts me to know thai Nnu
= are printing II paper now, 81 You Ell
, show oil To advantage What have IN
vc,tc,. ia you.
Press right ON. keeI, wri, ing ~,
= these everest iinated men like Moar-,
, and do not care what yoti say pro
i. videl you rise rnpit.ly yourself, even
# YOU do 80 upon the wreck and rum
of such nirn ;is Detl0t heneS aud other
, people whom YOU will no doubt show
= up before you ge' through.
| hope you will head up "a tp,iini-
bus and Patrick ii.'.iry il. tim" tu gct
: through with them n liitlc airi.i ui
!, the sheriff.
r After while want to write Il .i't IT,
| article for your paper, not - much
for the purpose of saying any hing,
bat IN order To show the coni,u~t i,-
+ tween the polished work of Il we'll
educated, smart young man and the
- crude efforts of II plain man who j.
entirely untitled ior every hing cx-
eepi p4teitlal pnii.ose~.
= We are having good time here III
1 the south, enjoying the climate and
I making experiments with TIA. butter
which Is produ,si here.
A. warm Neit. ier ap.roacle, the
mountain butter of North Carolina is
= get iag lis hair cIt short, ami ! can
+. tril'hfully say, Henry, hat although
:. am no epicure a. "a general rule, !
nave had my palate tickled more since
| came here than ever did before
, Butter mad" in the fast Hess of Tho
4 bills IN Bunroue county j. mostly at
: q pale pearl ", with Il pin-stripe in
il of ultranarilic. This doe not look
badly, and tt SETS of Il hoec.shs first